sumber: http://www.eramuslim.com/berita/dunia/walaupun-sengsara-rakyat-gaza-tak-melupakan-haiti.htm http://www.euronews.net/2010/01/18/earthquake-in-haiti-palestinians-in-gaza-donate-to-haiti/ http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/573-children-of-gaza-donate-towards-haiti-disaster Salut dan simpati dgn Gaza, solidaritas kemanusiaannya tinggi. Ini juga pernah terjadi pd pekerja/buruh di Inggris sedang resesi, sedang demo...walau susah, mereka punya solidaritas kemanusiaan yg tinggi, mereka donasi ke pengungsi di Palestina pd saat pasca tragedi Sabra-Satila di Libanon. Bisa dibaca pd buku Tears of Heaven, kesaksiannya dr. Ang Swee Chai. Apa pun golongan-nya...entah beda suku, agama, atau ras....kemanusiaan dan keinginan untuk berbuat baik selalu menjadi prinsip universal yg mendorong berbuat baik kpd siapa pun tanpa pamrih. Best Regards and Wassalam, Nugon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dana_Abadi/message/1397 --- In [email protected], Aboe Hanifa <aboe_han...@...> wrote: Walaupun Sengsara, Rakyat Gaza Tak Melupakan Haiti Inilah salah satu hal yang banyak membuat dunia kagum kepada rakyat Gaza. Di tengah blokade dan gempuran Israel, mereka tidak melupakan tragedi Haiti. Mereka menyumbangkan apa saja yang mereka punya untuk para korban gempa bumi di Haiti. Penderitaan rakyat Gaza dan Haiti jelas berbeda latar belakangnya, namun rakyat Gaza mengatakan mereka bersimpati dan merasakan hal yang sama. Seperti diketahui, sampai saat ini Gaza masih di bawah kontrol Israel meliputi udara, laut, dan darat. Ada reruntuhan di Jalur Gaza yang mengingatkan pada adegan di Haiti. Ini bukan disebabkan oleh bencana alam, tetapi dengan bom dalam serangan mematikan Israel di Gaza setahun yang lalu. Orang-orang yang keluarganya masih menjadi tahanan di Gaza juga berpartisipasi, dengan memberikan donasi seadanya, termasuk selimut, serta makanan dan susu untuk anak-anak. Ketua Komite untuk Break Blockade, Al-Khudary Jamal mengatakan "Orang mungkin heran pada kemampuan kami mengumpulkan sumbangan dari rakyat kami di Gaza; kami beritahukan bahwa ini adalah kampanye kemanusiaan dan rakyat kami mencintai kehidupan yang tenang dan damai." "Kami di sini sekarang mendukung korban Haiti. Kami sendiri merasa terkena gempa bumi, ketika Israel memerangi Gaza." Gaza, menderita dan sengsara, tapi tidak pernah melupakan penderitaan orang lain. (sa/wb) --- End forwarded message --- Palestinians in Gaza donate to Haiti 18/01 19:41 CET It might be one of the world’s poorest areas, besieged by its neighbour Israel, but Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have been donating what little they have to help those struck by the earthquake in Haiti. Among the donations collected by a Red Cross representative: toys, toiletries and sweets ��" small luxuries that Gazans know only too well can brighten spirits in the face of devastation. Some also gave money. Dr Jamal Khudari, from the Palestinian Committee against the Siege said: “It’s a symbolic donation for the people of Haiti, for the children of Haiti, to tell them that we feel the suffering.” There are ruins in the Gaza Strip reminiscent of the scenes in Haiti. These were not caused by a natural disaster, but by bombs and shells in Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza, which drew to a close a year ago. Israel blamed attacks by militants for sparking the offensive. The reason for the destruction might be different, but Palestinians say they understand Haiti’s pain. Copyright © 2010 euronews Tags: Aid, Earthquake in Haiti, Gaza Children of Gaza donate towards Haiti disasterChildren of Gaza donate towards Haiti disaster Tuesday, 19 January 2010 13:27 Dr. Hanan Chehata Following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti last week, 13th January, in which hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives, the expected donations of humanitarian aid and emergency relief supplies have poured in from all corners of the globe. However, one of the most touching outpourings of sympathy and aid has come from the most unexpected source. Gaza. In a region so desperately troubled itself, the people of Gaza have gathered assistance such as blankets, food, milk and what little money they have to send to the victims of the Haiti earthquake disaster. Seeing children in Gaza, who already have so little, join together to help people who they have never even seen, in a country they have probably never even heard of is moving indeed. There has been a group of donors working in Gaza striving to gather and send off this aid including the People’s Popular Committee Against the Siege and the families and children of prisoners in Israeli jails. This demonstrates the fact that, despite all of the difficulty and trauma that they have been subjected to, the people of Palestine have not lost their humanity. They still understand the common, human impulse to help those in need, whoever and wherever they may be. This sends out a very positive image of the state of the human condition of those in Gaza. However, in complete contrast to this is the state of Israel who immediately boasted about sending out aid and medical teams to help the victim’s of the earthquake and yet are themselves the instigators and sustainers of one of the worst modern humanitarian crises in the world, on their own doorstep. It seems, in many ways, hypocritical for them to try and promote themselves as a humanitarian nation and to send teams racing across the globe to help the victims in Haiti while they themselves are imprisoning, occupying, abusing and keeping under siege a nation not even a stone's throw away from where they live. This is not to say that the people in Haiti should not be sent assistance from every possible source, however corrupt and displeasing that source may be; it is merely to point out the contradiction in Israel’s “humanitarianism”. If the children of Gaza can see the importance of reaching out and helping others then shouldn’t Israel be able to see the importance of reaching out and helping the children of Gaza? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
